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Seagate Expansion Desktop drive 3TB
I am having a problem getting my ReadyNas Duo to recognise my new Seagate 3TB USB3 drive. The drive powers up and spins up, but is not recognised by the NAS. In the "USB Storage" tab, it shows up as...
Its definitely of interest to me... I was quite happy (all things considered) to find a recent thread indicating that I was not alone in my troubles.
Very similar situation... I'd picked up a 3TB Seagate desktop backup drive a few months back only to find that my original intended use (attached to the USB 3.0 port on my Netgear router/firewall/access point) didn't work - not recognized. I'd already 'upgraded' that device to DD-WRT, and it sounded like it was more a function of DD-WRT not handling >2TB filesystems than anything. So later when I got my ReadyNAS Duo V2, I had hoped to plug into it to perform backups. Again, as you encountered... no go.
I know you said you formatted it with two partitions - a 2TB and a 1TB, and plan to backup to the 2TB partition... what (if anything) are you going to use the 1TB partition for?
It seems like this may be a problem with the underlying Linux kernel being old enough that it doesn't natively support >2TB... if so, I'd say it needs to be updated!
Very similar situation... I'd picked up a 3TB Seagate desktop backup drive a few months back only to find that my original intended use (attached to the USB 3.0 port on my Netgear router/firewall/access point) didn't work - not recognized. I'd already 'upgraded' that device to DD-WRT, and it sounded like it was more a function of DD-WRT not handling >2TB filesystems than anything. So later when I got my ReadyNAS Duo V2, I had hoped to plug into it to perform backups. Again, as you encountered... no go.
I know you said you formatted it with two partitions - a 2TB and a 1TB, and plan to backup to the 2TB partition... what (if anything) are you going to use the 1TB partition for?
It seems like this may be a problem with the underlying Linux kernel being old enough that it doesn't natively support >2TB... if so, I'd say it needs to be updated!
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